This is fucking beautiful:
Does someone at the White House read Balloon Juice? They did during the Obama years, I know that.
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This is fucking beautiful:
Does someone at the White House read Balloon Juice? They did during the Obama years, I know that.
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Baud
I didn’t realize they had changed the banner for reproductive rights.
trollhattan
For every twit, a Tweet.
Cacti
My favorite Republican talking point:
“Farmers and ranchers shouldn’t have to pay”
Why the fuck not?
We all pay for their agricultural subsidies.
Nora
As George Takei would say, “Oh myyyyyy.” Good job, whoever’s doing this at the White House.
Cacti
I saw that phony blue collar guy Mike Rowe (net worth $30 million) is also upset.
geg6
Did they hire Fetterman’s social media guru?
karen marie
I am beyond delighted to see the Biden WH not just hitting back but hitting DIRECTLY back by quote tweeting the complaining Republican assholes. That’s how you combat disinformation.
dmsilev
I’m sure that, right now, there are political reporters moaning about loss of civility and clutching at pearls en route to the nearest fainting couch.
Whatever.
Jackie
The WH posted this hours ago. So far, it’s been crickets from the outed. <snicker>
HumboldtBlue
@Cacti:
Good point.
In other news, the racist woman in Plano, Texas who assaulted four Indian women leaving a restaurant has gotten Plano to trend.
Baud
The GOP is the party of resentment, so anytime the Dems help anybody, it’s resentment stoking time.
geg6
As expected, McMeghan has been everywhere screaming about how she paid off her $100k in grad loans. After skimming over the fact that her parents bankrolled her undergrad. And moral hazard, moral hazard, MORAL HAZARD!
Starfish
Here is Jamie Foxx doing an impression of Donald Trump, and I don’t know why I find it so funny. The premise of asking Donald Trump about his favorite rap music just tickles me.
OzarkHillbilly
As Rick Wilson said
Baud
@Starfish:
I don’t get why Foxx didn’t do more of this when Trump was in office. He’s really good.
lee
@geg6:
She also skips over how she paid off those loans my going on TV and saying ‘Do you know who my father is?’
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
Yesssssss!! I’m so glad that POS was arrested and charged.
gene108
@Starfish:
Foxx’s impersonation is really good.
Wapiti
What business does Matt Gaetz run that had $480k payroll? There’s nothing in his bio about a side job.
zhena gogolia
@lee: Different Megan (Meghan McCain not McArdle)
geg6
That’s brilliant!
ETA: Jamie Foxx, that is.
SiubhanDuinne
@lee:
Think you may possibly be conflating Megan McArdle with Meghan McCain. Equally awful, but different.
lee
@zhena gogolia: ooops my bad. I thought it was weird she had loans in the first place.
grumbles
Asymmetric McMegan needs to stick to exhorting other peoples’ children to bumrush domestic terrorists, explaining how gastritis makes you bad with calculators and extolling the virtues of Himalayan pink salt.
I mean, I know she’s angling for Nooner’s role (maybe absent the drinking problem), but the thing is, people took Peggy seriously for quite a while. McMegan angled for the “rhetorically defending the wealthy against the poors” thing a bit too enthusiastically, too early. You have to nuance these things when you’re auditioning for Republican-Ms.-Manners, and she’s extremely well-known as a lightweight flake who isn’t all that quick.
Oh, the tragedy of the upper-middle-class striver-twit. Smart enough to know she’s not taken seriously, arrogant and insecure enough to care, but not smart enough to fix it. That’s gotta sting.
craigie
@Starfish:
Bloody funny!
SiubhanDuinne
@Wapiti:
I haven’t checked, but I suspect one could ask the same question about many other members of Congress.
CaseyL
I just love this hitting back thing, and want to see more of it.
SiubhanDuinne
@grumbles:
This is brilliant.
bbleh
Yabbut don’t you see, MTG, and Matt “Not Yet Convicted Of Child Sex-Trafficking” Gaetz, and the rest of ’em deserve the subsidies, which we know because they are successful and because [insert religiostic argument of choice here]. On the other hand, these people Biden is giving our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars™ to, and also inflation something something, are just kids who went to elitist universities!
Now could we get back to cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations and shoveling staggering amounts of (totally non-inflationary) money into military procurement please? Thank you.
TaMara
@Starfish: I was just coming to embed that. So here it is:
HumboldtBlue
@Starfish:
Looks around with haughty disdain, knowing in his heart he posted that clip in a thread downstairs.
He’s a brilliant man. His depiction of Ray Charles was brilliant and his musicianship is extraordinary.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oh, she’s entering the Find Out portal and no Mexican-American woman tears are gonna save her. Her fellow Mexican Americans are fucking pissed as well.
Steeplejack
Kristine
@dmsilev:
I did see one complaint along those lines. I don’t believe it was a journo, just a conservative complaining that Biden’s promise of a return to civility had apparently be forgotten. Someone replied that responding with facts isn’t uncivil.
HinTN
@geg6: Moral Hazard licks his balls in response, if I remember the required reading (Rude Pundit) correctly.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
As well they should be. A shanda fur sure.
eversor
@Cacti:
Because they are rual, white, Christians, with proper gender roles and Christian values, also they obey the god ordained natural order of things. Therefoer they should have things. And people who are not rural, not white, don’t follow gender roles, don’t follow the natural order, and do not follow traditional Christianity cannot be given anything and exist only to give up money.
The entire National Conservatism thing is that they, due to their religion, own the joint. Everything for them is socialized and their culture is enforced by law. Everyone else is allowed to live here and pay for their stuff, but they get no input into anything and don’t get to speak out.
HinTN
@CaseyL: Damn Fucking Right!
HumboldtBlue
HinTN
@Steeplejack: No it doesn’t. It’s free fucking money. They’re lampreys, or remora, I’m too drunk to know. That they’re opportunistic assholes no amount of drink will obscure.
Suzanne
@Cacti:
Why the fuck not? I didn’t inherit property.
College is a luxury good to these people, completely unlike the $80K pickup truck.
Ken
If any of the usual suspects seems suspiciously silent, I’d bet it’s because there’s a “THIS YOU?” with their name on it.
HumboldtBlue
@Ken:
Yup.
Andrew Abshier
Democrats are learning how to throw punches. I am loving it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Starfish: Please tell Foxx did it in orange face. That would be perfect lol
The Thin Black Duke
Don’t overcomplicate things, folks.
The GOP imagine themselves as royalty.
They’re kings and queens. Everybody else are serfs.
And they will kill to preserve the natural order of things.
Our mistake is not taking them seriously.
Omnes Omnibus
@bbleh:
If you’re explaining, you are losing. It’s perfect.
Baud
Jamie Foxx does a better Trump than Cauvin. Zhena can fight me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Andrew Abshier:
Biden has always known. Go watch his debate with Paul Ryan,
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@HinTN: I thought that was Charlie Pierce. Moral Hazard was, in Pierce’s version, David Brooks’s dog?
also
Cacti
Remember, Joe Biden was the guy who reduced Rudy Giuliani’s public career to:
“A noun, a verb, and 9/11”.
Wyatt Salamanca
@SiubhanDuinne:
There’s a third horrific individual in this group:
h/t https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fck-you-dr-fauci-megyn-kelly-rages-at-outgoing-medical-advisor-for-saying-hell-consider-a-congressional-subpoena/
Of the three of them, I personally find Megyn Kelly the most vile and repulsive. Megyn Kelly isn’t fit to shine Fauci’s shoes and built her career working for Fox News Channel, the most intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt media organization in America.
Omnes Omnibus
Joe doesn’t respect these MAGA Republicans.
Suzanne
@Cacti:
Joe has always been at his best when he runs out of fucks.
oldster
@Starfish:
Incredible impression — it’s both the most accurate one I. have heard, and yet also the first one that does not make me want to vomit.
Jamie Foxx, man — what a talent.
Cacti
@Suzanne: The best part is Rudy is still bitter about it.
FastEdD
I’m here for the D’s throwing a few punches. If the other side is screaming and wailing you are doing a good job. Give us something to vote FOR.
In other news, they found a dead body dumped by the side of our remote country road this morning. I had to spend two hours talking to sheriffs trying to let me get back to my own house because the road was blocked off. OTOH sure is quiet tonight. Trade off I guess.
Suzanne
@Cacti: I hope he dies mad about it.
UncleEbeneezer
Can’t spell BiDEn without…*
* Yes I know there is 0% chance Biden runs (or even knows he has) his Twitter account.
Baud
@oldster:
Same. I think it’s because Foxx has a way of making Trump look especially clownish and pathetic.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: I commented in a dead thread that my Indian friend in Plano goes to the Kroger in the shopping center where she assaulted those women. Small world.
OverTwistWillie
@Cacti:
I guess they don’t know what the fuck the A is in Texas A&M.
Starfish
@HumboldtBlue: I miss a lot of daytime Balloon Juice because of work. You have excellent taste.
Starfish
Would someone like to tsk tsk the White House for not taking the feelings of rich people who got PPP loans into account?
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
MSNBC are featuring it right now. Joe went off. He just used the second half of FAFO.
And this Gadsden flag meme is brilliant.
@Starfish:
Bask in your glory, madam/sir, let the laughter sustain you.
@eclare:
Yes, I saw you write you had forwarded the clip, just like on the political front, I am sensing the pushback against this blatant racism, this hate, this entire modern GOP drive to be as nasty, as ugly, as hateful as possible has reached a tipping point. The voter registration numbers — particularly among women — are eye-opening and provide some hope that this mid-term will be completely unlike any in the past.
UncleEbeneezer
Anyone on Facebook, this is why you don’t have family as your FB friends! LOL!! (read the comments, especially those with 20+ replies)
Gravenstone
Only if the DOJ agrees and enforces it, you ignorant waste of skin.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@oldster: Well put – I feel similarly. Amazing talent around that table!
UncleEbeneezer
@Starfish: Oh fuck all the way off Kristol!
Kevin
I f-ing love everything about this.
Student loan forgiveness is a drop in the bucket compared to all the corporate welfare (PPP included) the GOP doles out.
Cacti
@UncleEbeneezer: Reminds me of a story from the Atlantic about him and his old man:
different-church-lady
Or are republicans being just that fucking obvious about what hypocrites they are?
FastEdD
@Starfish: Bloody Bill Kristol. I am glad he is wrong again. He used to be wrong about everything, then he was anti-TFG, and now he is back to being wrong. Good.
HinTN
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I sit corrected! 🙄
UncleEbeneezer
@Cacti: Oh believe me, I know. My Dad was a This Week w/David Brinkley fan who watched it because he loved Kristol and George Will.
MagdaInBlack
@UncleEbeneezer: You beat me to it.
HinTN
@Starfish: Bloody Bill Kristol
dm
This White House twit stream is really very clever: the targets can’t gin up fauxtrage about it without calling attention to it, and that would be attention they don’t want.
Tony G
@Wapiti: The Gaetz modeling agency for 13-year-old girls? Just speculating.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Here is hoping. And my friend votes D in every election. He has had his eyes opened by people who he thought were friends that voted for TFG.
Ken
@dm: Last night, someone commented that a lot of people are about to find out about the Barbra Streisand effect.
hueyplong
@Gravenstone: So if I have this straight, Megyn Kelly is threatening Fauci in response to his having taken lightly a threat by a different RWNJ media gabber.
Ramona Rosario
@SiubhanDuinne: Hurray!
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I will fight you! I think it’s derivative of Cauvin!
different-church-lady
@HumboldtBlue:
C’mon Joe, don’t do things half way.
planetjanet
Biden is on a roll. The DNC just texted out a quote “Every election is a choice. My dad used to say: ‘Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.’ Well the alternative to the Democrats is the MAGA Republicans.”
wombat probabilty cloud
Long travel day, so I just saw this a few minutes ago over at kos, and my first thought was, “Cole will really, really like this.”
zhena gogolia
@Baud: But it is good, I’ll admit.
HumboldtBlue
@different-church-lady:
I think he’s doing classic Joe. He knows there are still decent people in the GOP, and while we may find that hard to swallow, we also know that to be true.
He’s creating a wedge in the GOP, that helps us, because it’s going to mean you’re either MAGA or some other form of GOPer and I guarantee you he is certain he can capture them. From what I’ve seen in the past 18 months, I can’t doubt him.
Biden has been extraordinary good and successful at politics since he’s sat down at the Resolute desk.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This is so yesterday, but since Fauci-bashing is already in the thread
I wonder if Marco’s going to tell Ron where he can buy booster-boots
not kidding when I say I wonder how tall Crist is….
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@HumboldtBlue: Are you MAGA or normie R? That’s a hell of a lot more savvy than “two baskets”, let me tell you.
ETA normie R or R-leaning independent…
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
According to VimBuzz, whatever the hell VimBuzz may be, Crist is 5’9”.
https://vimbuzz.com/charlie-crist-height-how-tall-is-charlie-crist/
HumboldtBlue
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
I’m not sure what that means.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
White House, if you can hear me:
Since congressman Mike Kelly says he hates Wall Street and Lawyers, total up all the donations he’s taken from them and post it.
Another Scott
@Starfish: Says Bloody Bill Kristol who is on the board of trustees of the Manhattan Institute – the group that pays the vile Rufo as a Senior Fellow.
Cry me a river, Bloody Bill.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
“If we the people stand together, we will prevail” (video)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: well, there goes that idea….
HumboldtBlue
A visual representation of what Trump’s personal life is right about now.
RSA
@Starfish: Kristol:
WTF? The White House account is responding to Congressional Representatives’ accounts
ETA: Thanks for the Jamie Foxx link. That was excellent.
hilts
h/t https://www.yahoo.com/news/mar-lago-underground-tunnels-book-115700832.html
HumboldtBlue
Beto O’Rourke is on MSNBC right now and got-damn he is good.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
in which Marco Rubio writes a campaign ad for Val Demmings
Here’s hoping Nixon’s twitter ghost is right
Frankensteinbeck
@HumboldtBlue:
Whether or not there are a few actually convertible moderate Republicans, there are a lot of Democrats and squishies who will turn away from any politician who doesn’t sound like the reasonable adult in the room.
Frankensteinbeck
Oh, and did anyone else hear that Truth Social is deep underwater and owes a million and a half to its internet provider? Truth Social stopped paying its bills awhile ago. No one could have predicted that!
Sister Golden Bear
@hilts: Rudy wandering the tunnels, like the Penguin.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Lil’ Marco believes in the dignity and worth of life, unless they’re children from Central America then he wants to put them in cages and strip them from their mothers forever.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Frankensteinbeck:
Run the gubmint like a business! (that’s gone bankrupt six times and counting)
SFBayAreaGal
Taken from Daily Kos.
“Twitter users are calling out conservatives whining about “free money” with the phrase “this you?” Users are posting the phrase and tagging those who complain on the social media app alongside screenshots of the “free money” they received, many of which reflect amounts way beyond $10,000.
A thread with a compilation of the call-outs has made it easier to keep up with identifying those who received thousands in aid from the government and are now complaining.”
Suzanne
@HumboldtBlue:
Eh, at this point, if you’re still on that train, that’s on you, yanno? #AGOPAB
Mike in NC
Republicans are fucking hypocrites. Film at 11.
Steeplejack
@Starfish:
Screw you, Bill Kristol.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack: agree with Schooley.
It just. feels. good. to be swinging, swinging away righteously at these hypocrites.
It rallies the troops. It puts the GQP on their back foot – “what, the Dems are fighting back?” It also has the benefit of being true.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: That’s basically how Lawrence O’Donnell described TFG’s life tonight. Lol
SFAW
@Wyatt Salamanca:
So Fauci said he had nothing to hide — NOT that he would refuse a subpoena — and Meggy responds with “Fuck You” and implied he’d refuse? What a moran.
HumboldtBlue
@Jackie:
He did lay it out, didn’t he?
Jackie
President Biden has no f’s left to give. He gave quite a fiery speech tonight!
“Exuberant over a string of recent legislative victories, and launching his midterm campaigning in earnest, President Joe Biden swaggered into Maryland on Thursday and excoriated his predecessor’s philosophy as “semi-fascism,” in what constituted an unusually pointed and highly charged denunciation of Republicans.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told Democratic donors in the Washington suburb of Rockville. Calling out those he labeled as “extreme” Republicans, Biden said: “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/biden-trump-philosophy-semi-fascism-00053831
Cathie from Canada
The White House tweets tonight are being done by a brilliant young woman from New Jersey who started Aug 1 – I saw a tweet about her tonight but can’t find it now. She used to do tweets from the NJ govt and people loved her.
The “Thanks, Obama” tweet last week was apparently also one of hers.
An excellent hire!
PaulB
No. Fauci said elsewhere in that interview that he would “consider” appearing before Congress in response to a subpoena. That is what Kelly was ranting about.
The rant is actually on target, but she is, of course, guilty of massive hypocrisy, since she has not given similar rants about all the Trump supporters ignoring Democratic Congressional subpoenas.
Miss Bianca
@Starfish: Oh, good, now I can go back to despising Bill Kristol. It was kind of weird seeing “Always Wrong” Bill K on our side and calling things accurately for a change.
Quicksand
@Wyatt Salamanca:
Oh, is that NBC’s former star $69-million morning show anchor Megyn Kelly? Nah, couldn’t be.
BigJimSlade
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, I loved Pierce’s posts with Moral Hazard :-)